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mloxton

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Healthcare improvement and strategic foresight analyst, professional trainer in qualitative research methods. Organizational behavior researcher. Board member at Blue Faery Liver Cancer. #Writer of stuff - #AmWriting

Read my #fiction titles on Amazon "The Screw Turns" at https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09P5LLNZ1
See my Kindle Vela stories at https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0BLXHVVSY
... and my children's stories at https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0BLT56MG9

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mina, to Fashion
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Aren't long gloves the best and most elegant #fashion accessory ever invented?

Do you have a pair or two?

So you wear them sometimes?

mloxton,
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@mina
Unless you are Louise Linton and cosplaying some kind of evil genius at the US mint with her weird husband

GottaLaff, to random
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8 years later, haunted by rhetoric about candidates, crimes

By the reasoning Donald Trump pushed in 2016, his candidacy creates “an unprecedented constitutional crisis,” and he has “no right to be running.” https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/8-years-later-trump-haunted-rhetoric-candidates-crimes-rcna155138

mloxton,
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@GottaLaff
Reminds us all that fascists are transactional, have no real moral core, and don't care one whit about contradicting themselves

mloxton, to random
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I have no clue what it means "to be a man" or what "masculinity" is, and I really don't care. I know what it is to be a person, and I know what it is to be me.

And that is all I think I need to know on the topic.

StillIRise1963, to random
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To carry on the tradition, let me add that NO ONE has on a mask in this eye doctor waiting room.

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963
When I go to Costco etc., I am typically the only one in ~300 people wearing a mask, but thankfully, most people at the eye doctor still mask.

Looking at the morbidity & mortality stats, why is it not 100%?

chevrahachachamot, to Judaism
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Vancouver comics festival bans Jewish artist Miriam Libicki over past IDF service By Andrew Lapin May 30, 2024

"...In her own statement, Libicki, who explores Jewish identity in her work, called the ban “illegal” and said it was “bad for all artists of all political orientations and backgrounds.” She added, “I have consistently, publicly been pro-peace” and supportive of the establishment of a Palestinian state.

“Because of the vulnerable populations I work with, I prefer not to discuss my specific political views in public,” she wrote in a statement shared...by Jesse Brown, a Canadian Jewish publisher and journalist. “I believe all policing of artists’ personal identities and nationalities is wrong.”

But after the CJN article was published on Wednesday, the festival deleted its “Accountability Statement.” It has not responded to a JTA request for comment..."

https://www.jta.org/2024/05/30/culture/vancouver-comics-festival-bans-jewish-artist-miriam-libicki-over-past-idf-service

mloxton,
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@chevrahachachamot
Was the ban because of just being in the IDF, or to do with something she did?

StillIRise1963, to random
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Well, well, well.

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963
Ain't that some shit

athena_rose922, to random
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Attending virtual EMS rounds with a neurologist and he said that recognition of strokes in women is a problem because they tend to present differently and as a result outcomes are worse. I had heard that about heart attacks but that's a new one for strokes. And so it's yet another area where we have gender disparity in health care.

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@athena_rose922
That's a really interesting question. I would assume he was not thinking of transwomen, and that statistically their inclusion or exclusion wouldn't be noticeable, but it certainly raises a question of what the risk is for trans vs AFAB

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@athena_rose922
I can see some stuff in NCBI and PCORI, but doubt there is a whole lot of funding for something like that

StillIRise1963, to random
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I need to see this white guy’s Black “disguise” IMMEDIATELY.

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963
The what now?

StillIRise1963, to random
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😁

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/05/28/larry-connor-titanic-sub-who-is-ohio-billionaire-triton-submarines-oceangate-titon/?sh=54832a3421a1

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/an-ohio-billionaire-is-planning-to-take-another-submarine-to-the-titanic-wreck/ar-BB1ncqSf

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@StillIRise1963
I am very much in favor of billionaires undertaking wildly unsafe adventures so long as they are the only one's at risk

I think they should try their hands at canyon-leaping, hyena-whispering, boomslang petting, and the defusing of landmines and unexploded bombs.

GottaLaff, to random
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Reminder: I'm on the road today, so I will NOT be live-posting the

Please follow @Nonilex for coverage. She's terrific!

mloxton,
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@GottaLaff

Bon voyage, Laffy!

micchiato, to random
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#Obama should have codified #Roe as promised. #Biden should have codified Roe as promised. Campaigning on the Court is a ploy to GOTV and to raise more campaign cash:

“We really need a book titled ‘Those Who Knew Roe Was Never Enough and the the SC would overturn Roe.’ There are thousands such people.”

https://bsky.app/profile/prisonculture.bsky.social/post/3ktidd632dg27

mloxton,
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@Jennifer

Hang in there, sister.
With Democrats, you never get what they promise, but always get progress, but with Republicans you always get what you fear most, and never get what you need.

@Mary625 @zakalwe @micchiato

mloxton,
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@micchiato
"All I got in return is rising fascism"

Sure, which has many causes - one of which is success. As diversity climbs, and previously underrepresented constituencies gain visibility, so does the rightward backlash. The panic by white men who feel their privilege slipping away is palpable and not a failure on our part.

"It’s radicals who change the country"

Yes. and most big-bang shifts are nasty. Most positive change is through incremental improvement

@Jennifer @Mary625 @zakalwe

mloxton,
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@freakazoid

Spicy!

"I sure don't hear enough straight old white man opinions!"

Nope, we have too many old white men deciding stuff, and could do with more women, BIPoC, and LGBTQ+ voices. Which is why I deliberately promote them ahead of myself on panels, leading research projects, getting plum tasks and roles, and getting promoted.

"Heaven forbid we should disrupt your cushy ..."

I favor incremental improvement because IT WORKS BETTER

@micchiato @Jennifer @Mary625 @zakalwe

mloxton,
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@freakazoid

No, for OTHERS

@micchiato @Jennifer @Mary625 @zakalwe

mloxton,
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@arh

If he wins, we are very likely to lose democracy, and it would likely set the country back by 500 years. The country would likely break up, and some states would sink to 3rd world conditions. It would not be possible to put it back together, and some regions will never recover.

The primary reason for the conflict now is precisely because there HAS been change. The fascist swing is due to that shift, and a minority trying to keep power

@freakazoid @micchiato @Jennifer @Mary625 @zakalwe

mloxton,
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@freakazoid
"backlash against Obama because he was Black.... what else"

Certainly bc he was Black, but a whole constellation of other stuff.
A Black guy as president shocked them, and many suddenly noticed a lot of the change, and how women, Blacks, and PoC were in good jobs. There is a sociological boundary when a lot of people shift from helpful to antagonistic, and it pivots around visibly "different" people in "their" environment

@arh @micchiato @Jennifer @Mary625 @zakalwe

mloxton,
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@freakazoid
Check out the stats on "deaths of despair"

There is a segment of the population that are white, male, and Christian, and who have been seeing their privileges melting away, and women and BIPoC gaining ground. Many of those white guys interpret as "being replaced" and influencers have been peddling that for decades.

The collapse in 2008 hit many of them, and Industry 4.0 is hitting them. They feel their identity as males disappearing.

@arh @micchiato @Jennifer @Mary625 @zakalwe

StillIRise1963, to random
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Smug, stupid and racist. I see it all the time.

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963
Amazing how those go together

mloxton,
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@StillIRise1963
In Dutch, there is a term for the combo of stupid and arrogant, and I bet there is a German word for your trifecta

mloxton, to random
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Firstly, don't eat bears.
Secondly, cook meat thoroughly, if you really need to eat dead stuff

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/if-you-plan-to-eat-an-undercooked-bear-watch-out-for-brain-worms/

mloxton, to random
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Day 23: What gets in the way of your writing?

The need to earn money, lack of wine and chocolate, and insufficient number of gay toxicologists

mloxton, to random
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There is a whole genre of people who play music to animals, and it is probably one of the better features of our species

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYD42BXbjFg

Nonilex, to Mexico
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The #Biden admin has a plan to shut down the #border. But it needs #Mexico's help.

The admin hopes to unveil a series of executive actions that President Biden can sign but will likely have to wait for the outcome of Mexico's June 2 presidential #election.

#Immigration #policy #law
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-administration-plan-shut-border-needs-mexicos-help-rcna153620

mloxton,
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@Nonilex
I wish theses journos would be a little more specific with their reporting.

By "shut down the border" they actually mean "refuse entry to migrants". Actually shutting down the border would be a massive problem because tones of goods cross every day, and many businesses would be unable to operate, and some essential services would fail.

GottaLaff, to random
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“Provocative.” 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄 GET HIM OFF THE COURT. Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.Ihnd.LkwD_75RA6zD&smid=url-share

“Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Home

The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html

mloxton,
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@GottaLaff

It irritates me so much that we seem to be stuck at an 8yr old's level of thinking. What adult hangs a stupid flag like that? This isn't the level of thinking we want in SCOTUS, it is a level one expects to see among poorly-socialized middle-schoolers

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